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Anne Beetem Acker

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08 December 2014

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22 September 2015

Technology that allows a person to control a music-related output with commands expressed by brain signals. The output signal can control physical and virtual instruments and composition systems. Therapeutic applications include allowing severely physically disabled persons to participate actively in music-making. A number of methods of detecting and measuring brain activity have been tried; electroencephalography (EEG) has proved to be the most practical. Neural activity generates electric fields that can be detected by EEG electrodes placed on the scalp. The electrodes are placed in an array that allows mapping of neural activity over time. The signals are very weak and must be amplified and broken into frequency bands commonly labeled from low to high as Theta, Delta, Alpha, low Beta, medium Beta, and Gamma....

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John M. Geringer

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Published in print:

26 November 2013

Published online:

22 September 2015

The CMR was founded at Florida State University in 1980 to create effective research environments for scholarship in music education, music therapy, and associated areas. It facilitates research and publication by students and faculty, and combines scholarly inquiry in music with appropriate applications of technology....